Definitions for hoggish

hoggish hog·gish

Spelling: [haw-gish, hog-ish]
IPA: /ˈhɔ gɪʃ, ˈhɒg ɪʃ/

Hoggish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in hoggish (gghhios).

Definitions for hoggish

adjective

  1. like or befitting a hog.
  2. selfish; gluttonous; filthy.

Origin of hoggish

1425-75; late Middle English. See hog, -ish1

Examples for hoggish

Venta do Duque is a sty right worthy of being the capital of hoggish dominions.

We fellers are only havin' a little fun with 'em for bein' so stuck-up and hoggish.

It had a black, hoggish nose, but there were fangs in its great jaws.

All our industrious men were well behaved; and all our idle men were hoggish.

For those devils so talked of and feared are none else but hoggish jailors.

It was a hoggish thing to do; but he was a native and knew no reason for letting up.

He was as unsociable, hoggish an old curmudgeon as ever rode a stout hack.

And you will cosset him in them—to save his hoggish dignity487 and buttress up his heavy pride.

The young of the cowbird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might say hoggish.

But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to the hoggish disposition.

Word Value for hoggish
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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